Whinge thread

[mellie]

Online shopping is a bigger threat to face-to-face shopping, but is it entirely a bad thing?

You've got people who are housebound, aged, ill, lack-time or otherwise unable to get about, so is online shopping all that bad?

As for the check-out operators... they are increasingly being replaced with self-serve registers, now if only they would work properly, and serve us the way they are meant to.
I find them so annoying, especially when they beep and say staff assistance required.

I do most of my gift shopping for interstate relatives online because it's cheaper than purchasing the gift from a face-to-face store then sending it in the form of a registered parcel in a separate transaction.

And I am guilty of having purchased bottle water from an airport vending machine on numerous occasions because it's often cheaper than purchasing it from an airport cafe/store or on the plane.

You guys are going to hate this then...





https://youtu.be/w_bL7gnGPLQ


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If you were starving, would you contemplate a vending machine pizza?

Or fancy a cup of hot chips perhaps?

A western Australian enterprenure is rolling hot-chip machines out across Australia by the end of this year.

[Neferti]

Woolworths (and I guess Coles) have an ONLINE ordering service.

https://www2.woolworthsonline.com.au/?g ... vAod1S8AzA

I know people who work (especially odd hours) who use this. It is not a rip off. It is a SERVICE. Delivery is about $15 or so.

[Black Orchid]

I do a lot of online shopping but I prefer to physically do the grocery shopping as I usually buy extras that aren't on my list. After I have finished lugging a full trolley around I just want to load it onto the conveyor belt and have someone else ring it up. I don't want to listen to a stupid machine giving me instructions that are irrelevant ie "Please remove your shopping bag" when there is no shopping bag there to begin with,

[Black Orchid]

I also prefer to select my own meat, fruit and vegies.

[mellie]

I also prefer to select my own meat, fruit and vegies.

Oddly enough ... I have been happy with the fresh produce Coles and Woolies have packed for my occasional online delivery, (Ie, I was house sitting for relatives in another state recently and didn't have any transport so had groceries delivered to the house I was sitting) and I even suspect they make a special effort to ensure it's top-shelf produce(better than you would pull from the shelves yourself it seems).

It seems they save the best produce for the online shoppers.
Why this is, I have no idea.

And, you are less inclined to impulse buy and go over budget when you shop online also.

The online specials are great too, and much easier to find online instead of rummaging down every aisle in the store.
You can breeze through your online order in comfort.

Who wants to go out in the freezing cold during a thunderstorm with a toddler?

Not I!



Coles deliver free on Wednesdays if you spend $100 or more.



Personally, I prefer Woolies to Coles, though until Woolies offers something similar ..(a free delivery day) I will continue to online shop at Coles and "Real" shop at Woolies.

If lugging groceries to your car then back into your house pains you, then this is a great option.

My mother had been having severe pain in her hips until a clever chiropractor told her to stop pushing shopping trolleys, or at least, use the smaller trolleys.

Shopping trolleys are notorious for hip, lower back and shoulder pain apparently.

[boxy]

Machines taking jobs from real humans? Who'da thunk it?

What a bright future we're building.

[IQS.RLOW]

Machines taking jobs from real humans? Who'da thunk it?

What a bright future we're building.

Checkout chick = 1 employee
Home delivery = 1 packer + 1 deliverer = 2 employees

What was it you were crying over again?

[boxy]

Machines taking jobs from real humans? Who'da thunk it?

What a bright future we're building.

Checkout chick = 1 employee
Home delivery = 1 packer + 1 deliverer = 2 employees

What was it you were crying over again?

The self serve society we have been working towards for decades (ie. ATMs and customer operated checkouts). Do try to keep up

BTW, you still need a packer (for the shelves) as well as a check out chick. So home delivery is job neutral... at best.

[IQS.RLOW]

ATM machines need skilled technicians to service them.

Looks like you're more in favour of keeping dumb unskilled labour where it can eliminated and replaced by higher waged skilled labour.

Typical thinking by a backward thinking lefty fuckwit.

[Super Nova]

People who tattoo themselves on their face are f..k'n idiots. Then they wonder why they cannot get a job.



It’s perfectly understandable to be so overwhelmed with love you want to commemorate that feeling somehow.

Photographs, ceremony, perhaps an item of jewellery or a new tattoo are just some of the ways to mark these moments.

So is getting a gigantic inking of your child’s face on your own face, apparently.

That’s exactly what Christien Sechrist did, before proudly posting the image to his Facebook page.

Alongside the image dated 16 July 2014, Sechrist wrote: “Thanks Cody Gibbs for doing awesome work on me. Looks just like my son.”

While the somewhat starting image was greeted with some praise including “looks good” and “nice one”, some of Sechrist’s friend were less than impressed.

Ashlee Nichole asked: “Is this a joke Christien?!”

When Sechrist replies in the negative she continues: “Why on your f****** face?! How are you ever going to get a real f****** job to support your son with a tattoo on your face?”

Sechrist merely replies: “Lol.”

Sechrist hit the headlines last year shortly after he went public with his tattoo, appearing on a Tumblr account called Meme Humour.

And it’s surfacing again because, well…. Just look at it.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/d ... ?ocid=iehp

That tat looks a lot like .............